* One of the following conditions must occur for a crime to be defined as violent under this definition: actual physical harm or threat of physical harm, or a reasonable probability existed that individual criminal acts could have resulted in unintended physical harm or the threat of physical harm.

Elderly Inmate Admissions Compared Over Five Years

Type of Offense

Number

Percent

Average Sentence
Length in Years*

Average Age at
Admission

Murder, Manslaughter

95

2.8%

26.7

57.3

Sexual offenses

305

9.0%

14.6

58.8

Robbery

93

2.7%

8.6

54.3

Violent Personal offenses

454

13.4%

4.1

55.4

Burglary

335

9.9%

5.2

54.2

Theft/Forgery/Fraud

594

17.5%

2.9

55.0

Drug offenses

972

28.6%

3.5

55.1

Weapons

112

3.3%

3.7

55.7

Other

437

12.8%

2.7

55.8

Data unavailable = 51
* Sentence lengths of 50 years or longer, life, and death are coded as 50 years for calculations of averages.